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- Euronews
Foreign ministers of 25 countries call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Twenty-five countries, including France, Belgium and the United Kingdom, issued a joint statement on Monday saying the war in Gaza "must end now" and Israel must comply with international law. The foreign ministers representing the cosignatories said "the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths' and condemned 'the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food." "The Israeli government's aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity," the statement said. "The Israeli government's denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law," it added. In January, Israel banned the main UN organisation delivering aid to Palestinians in Gaza, UNRWA, from operating, claiming the agency turned a blind eye to Hamas members in its ranks. Responsibility for aid distribution was handed over to the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which had no previous experience of delivering aid to combat zones. Its delivery method has been criticised by established aid groups, and deliveries at its four distribution sites across Gaza have often seen people killed, either in crowd crushes or after Israeli forces or security contractors opened fire near aid-seekers. The signatories included the foreign ministers of around 20 European countries as well as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the EU Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management. The signatories called for an immediate ceasefire, adding they are prepared to take action to support a political pathway to peace in the region. Gaza's population of more than 2 million Palestinians is in a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, according to international organisations, now relying mainly on the limited aid allowed into the territory. Many people have been displaced multiple times. The Israel-Hamas war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on 7 October 2023, killing around 1,200 people, most of them civilians. Hamas took 251 people as hostages, and is currently holding 50, of whom 20 are believed to be alive. A subsequent Israeli offensive has resulted in the deaths of at least 59,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, whose figures do not distinguish between fighters and civilians. The Israeli military says 850 of its soldiers have died since the start of the war. Israel and Hamas have been holding ceasefire talks in Qatar, which have so far produced no concrete results. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly asserted that expanding Israel's military operations in Gaza will pressure Hamas in negotiations. On Monday, the IDF launched its first ground operation into the central city of Deir al-Balah but gave no information about its aims and objectives.
France 24
an hour ago
- France 24
That video said to show Trump selecting a young girl at an Epstein party? It's AI
'The looks on the girls' faces. Holding hands in anticipation of the worst,' read a caption on a video that was posted online on July 13. The footage shows US President Donald Trump pointing at one of two young girls standing before him. The implication is that he is selecting her to have sexual relations with him, which would constitute a crime. The president appears to be making his sordid choice in the presence of Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier who was found dead in his cell in 2019 while facing charges of sex trafficking of minors. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping provide Epstein with these girls. This video appeared online at a moment when Trump is being criticised by his own supporters for how he has managed the Epstein affair. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump promised to make sensational revelations about the financier, including publishing a list of clients of Epstein's prostitution ring, whom he allegedly blackmailed. Since then, the president has been trying to backtrack on his promises. The US Justice Department published a memo on July 7 claiming that no 'incriminating client list' had been discovered. 'There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions,' the memo reads. An AI video created from a real photo The video, however, is fake. We ran it through a reverse image search (learn how by using our handy guide). It seems as if it was based on a real photo published by the British tabloid The Sun. This image shows Trump next to Ghislaine Maxwell. There's also a third person in the image, but you can only see part of their hair in the video. The rest of the video, where you can see the young girls, was entirely created by AI. There are a few clues that helped us determine this. First of all, the wall is grey in the original photo but blue in the video. The door to the right in the original photo is gone in the video. And there are no children in the original photo. We ran the image through InVID-We verify, a tool that helps identify deepfakes. It concluded that the image of the young girls in the video is 94% likely to be AI-generated. The video is emblematic of a new generation of deep fakes that have appeared in recent months. To make them more convincing, fake videos have been generated from real photos using AI, which makes them harder to detect as their details are closer to reality. To verify them, you have to find the original photo that it was based on and then look for inconsistencies between the photo and the video. A fake video published by 'BlueAnon' social media users The fake video of Trump seems to have largely been spread by left-leaning social media users. One pro-democratic social media user, for example, accused MAGA activists (Make America Great Again, Trump's slogan) of supporting a 'paedophile rapist' just because 'they thought he would hurt black and brown people more than themselves". BlueAnon encompasses left-leaning conspiracy theories, many of which arose during the 2024 American presidential election. It is a play on the colour 'blue' used to represent Democratic wins on an electoral map and 'QAnon", conspiracy theories championed by Trump supporters. The spread of this video suggests the movement remains active.
France 24
3 hours ago
- France 24
Trump threatens to block NFL D.C. stadium deal unless Commanders revert to 'Redskins' name
US President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, D.C., unless the local NFL team, now known as the Commanders, changes its name back to Redskins. The American football team dropped the name Redskins in 2020 after decades of criticism that it was a racial slur with links to the US genocide of the Indigenous population. Trump had called for a return to the name Redskins – and for the Cleveland Guardians baseball team to once again adopt the name Indians – on other occasions, but on Sunday he added that he may take official action. "I may put a restriction on them that if they don't change the name back to the original 'Washington Redskins,' and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, 'Washington Commanders,' I won't make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. The team moved from Washington to suburban Landover, Maryland, in 1997, but earlier this year reached an agreement with the local District of Columbia government to return to the city with a new stadium expected to open in 2030. Trump has limited authority to intervene under the current home-rule law governing federal oversight of the District of Columbia, but he has raised the prospect of taking more control, telling reporters in February, "I think we should take over Washington, D.C." Representatives of the Commanders did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Some fans have advocated readopting the name Redskins out of tradition, but leading Indigenous rights organisations have opposed the name, including the National Congress of American Indians, the Association on American Indian Affairs, and Cultural Survival. At least one group, the Native American Guardian's Association, has supported the name Redskins and the "respectful use of Native American names and imagery in sports, education and public life".
